I wonder sometimes if cooperation is completely lost to today's people on this planet. Have we lost our ability to work together towards common aims, focusing instead on our differences and not working with someone else because we disagree with them strongly? It's a shame if we have lost the willingness to cooperate with others because it seems very clear that as a species, we're not going to progress at all unless we're able to work together to overcome the obstacles that face us. If we focus only on what we want and what we think is right, we lose the chance to learn from others who have something very special to teach us, something that we can get only from them. If we aren't willing to work with others, then we're doomed to having to do everything ourselves, and much of the work that we do will be necessarily mediocre, because we're not all gifted and doing everything. Some things we're going to be only kind of good at, but if we're unwilling to help others and get help from others, "kind of good" will be the limit of our potential as far as most things are concerned. The world may be full of people who are unwilling to compromise, but in this case it's important that we don't take our cues from those people. Rather, learn from those who are willing to work together with others, as human beings really, truly should.
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